Word: truths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trying to get to the truth of what would be, if proven, serious charges," he told...
...President is a compulsive womanizer and liar. He cannot restrain himself even in the most public forum. Late last year in a visit to Venezuela, Clinton flagrantly flirted with a presidential candidate, who just happened to be a former Miss Universe. Nor can he tell the simple and whole truth on the most trivial matters. Last November, Clinton said he had not eaten at McDonald's since he became president, a laughable lie disproved with a simple NEXIS search...
...truth, I do think this latter claim is more accurate. But even assuming the safety effects cancel out, there are still great reasons for keycard access. It would increase a sense of campus-wide community. Which upperclass student does not recall with great fondness the days of being a first-year, popping in to visit friends and vice versa? The result of restricted access is the relegation of socialization to electronically pre-arranged encounters. Moreover, it is simply more convenient. We are afraid to say this because we think it makes us seem selfish or reckless, but we shouldn...
...Johnson being big-hearted, triple-slick Southern boys, and mama's boys, with a genius for politics, and a bardic gift for storytelling, and huge egos and insecurities interbraided, and minds aggressively intelligent, instinctive, fiercely absorptive, and with a love of people, and a general incapacity to tell the truth. Or anyway (let's be nice) a way of thinking of the truth as only one of life's creative possibilities...
...Force Academy that has killed six people in three crashes [NATION, Jan. 12]. By suggesting that the failure of the plane's single engine has caused the aircraft to fall and corkscrew into the ground, you perpetuate the misunderstanding that flying and airplanes are inherently dangerous. The truth is that a good pilot will almost always walk away uninjured from an engine failure by finding an open space on the ground and gliding the plane to a forced but safe landing. LAWRENCE D. MARTIN Naples...